Saving model in fastai v2

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#1

Hello there,

I’m new to fastai v2 (not fastaiv1) and this forum so I’m still trying to figure a few things out.
I’ve trained a model and want to save it. In the fastai v2 documentation there is a function called ‘save_model()’. (https://docs.fast.ai/learner).

The arguments for the function are:

  • file (path)
    -model (I guess the trained learner object)
  • opt

My question is: what is opt?

When I pass the function without specifying opt I get this message (./ is the path, learn is the model I just trained:
save_model('./' , learn)
TypeError: save_model() missing 1 required positional argument: 'opt'

So I was wondering what opt is, as it’s not clear in the documentation.

Thank you in advance for anyone taking their time to answer the question.

#2

hey @lucacontini, opt stands for optimizer (fastai vocab gets tricky sometimes: https://docs.fast.ai/dev/abbr). If you keep with_opt=True it is a required argument.

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#3

The better option is learn.save('myfname'). This will automatically fill that opt requirement for you. (and uses the API properly)

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#4

Thank you! Very helpful

#5

That’s what I ended up doing. Thank you for the reply!